THE COIN COLLECTOR - World eBook Library

THE COLLECTOR SERIES
of James II. and William III. It exhibits on obverse
the crowned arms of Scotland, and on reverse a palm-
tree and Dot Gloria Vires. Usually known us the
Cruickston dollar, from the erroneous association of
the palm with a yew on the estate of Darn ley in
Renfrewshire, beneath which the Queen and himself
used to sit. There are the dates 1565-66-67.
S.R.I.A.—Sancti Romani Imperii Arehidapifer.
S.R.I.P.—Sancti Romani Imperii Princeps.
St. Andrezc, and the half-—A gold coin of Scotland,
first struck under Robert II., 1371-90, and repre-
senting, with the lion of the r.ame reign, the earliest
regular gold currency of that kingdom. There is the
Long-cross and the Short-cross type, of which the
latter is the rarer. Under James V. the two-third
and one-half were coined in 1488. A pattern gold
St. Andrew exists of the reign of James V.
Saints'' names on Anglo-Saxon coins—In the Anglo-
Saxon series (a.d. 905-40-42) occur pennies in silver
with the names of St. Peter and St. Martin ; of the
former there is a division, either a halfpenny or a third
of a penny. The St. Martin money was struck at Lin-
coln. (See Hawkins, 1887, pp. 99-102.)
Sanctus Vultus—The supposed head of Christ on
the mediaeval and later money of Lucca in Italy. It
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